Dan Smart is a writer, poet, and musician from Chicago, IL. His poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Jabberwock Review, Little Stone Journal, Red Fez, The Legendary, Cease Cows Magazine, and Hooligan Magazine, among others. He has been featured as a guest-lecturer on poetry at Illinois Wesleyan University and Heartland Community College and has sustained a daily poetry practice since 2013 which has generated over 2,000 original poems.